---
title: "Connect Keygen and Zoho Books - APIANT.ai"
description: "When \"License Created\" fires in Keygen, your agent runs \"Add customer payment\" in Zoho Books, or \"New bill\" in Zoho Books to \"Create User\" in Keygen."
canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/keygen-to-zoho-books"
---

# Connect Keygen and Zoho Books

When **License Created** fires in [Keygen](https://apiant.ai/connections/keygen), your agent runs **Add customer payment** in [Zoho Books](https://apiant.ai/connections/zoho-books), or **New bill** in Zoho Books to **Create User** in Keygen. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.

Keygen **13** triggers Keygen **28** actions Zoho Books **6** triggers Zoho Books **18** actions

What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.

## What do you want Keygen and Zoho Books to do together?

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Example flows

## What Keygen and Zoho Books can do together

### From Keygen to Zoho Books

- When **License Created** in Keygen then **Add customer payment** in Zoho Books
- When **New Event** in Keygen then **Create Customer** in Zoho Books

### From Zoho Books to Keygen

- When **New bill** in Zoho Books then **Create User** in Keygen
- When **New Customer** in Zoho Books then **Add Release** in Keygen

Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships.

Everything your agent can do with Keygen and Zoho Books

## Triggers and actions 19 triggers · 46 actions

- Trigger

**License Created**

Fires when a license is created in Keygen.

- Trigger

**License Deleted**

Triggers when a license is deleted.

- Trigger

**License Expired**

Triggers when a license has expired.

- Trigger

**License Expiring**

Triggers when a license is expiring soon.

- Trigger

**License Renewed**

Triggers when a license is renewed.

- Trigger

**License Used**

Triggers when a license's usage is incremented.

- Trigger

**Machine Activated**

Triggers when a machine is activated.

- Trigger

**Machine Deactivated**

Triggers when a machine is deactivated.

- Trigger

**New Event**

Triggers when a new event like a license validation, an activation, or an expiration occurs.

- Trigger

**Password Reset**

Triggers when a user requests a password reset.

- Trigger

**Release Created**

Triggers when a new release is created.

- Trigger

**Release Published**

Triggers when a release is published.

- Trigger

**User Created**

Triggers when a new user is created.

- Action

**Activate Machine**

Activates a new machine for a license using a known fingerprint.

- Action

**Add Release**

creates a new release (version, channel, product relationship) for a product; fires the release.created webhook event.

- Action

**Checkout License**

Checks out a license file.

- Action

**Checkout Machine**

Checks out a machine file.

- Action

**Create License**

Creates a new license according to a policy.

- Action

**Create Policy**

Creates a license policy for a Keygen product.

- Action

**Create Product**

Creates a product in Keygen.

- Action

**Create Release**

/releases with version, channel and product relationship (status DRAFT): creates a draft release for a product, which Publish Release can then publish.

- Action

**Create Token**

Creates a new API token for a license.

- Action

**Create User**

Creates a new user.

- Action

**Deactivate Machine**

deactivates (deletes) a machine, firing machine.deleted.

- Action

**Delete License**

Permanently deletes a license.

- Action

**Find License**

Finds an existing license by its license key or Keygen ID.

- Action

**Find User**

Finds an existing user by their email address or Keygen ID.

- Action

**Get Token**

Retrieves a single API token by its id, returning its kind, name, expiry and permissions.

- Action

**Increment License Usage**

/v1/accounts/{account}/licenses/{id}/actions/increment-usage with optional body {"meta":{"increment":N}} — increments the license's uses count (fires license.usage.incremented).

- Action

**List Entitlements**

Lists a license's entitlements by license key or license ID.

- Action

**List Policies**

Lists the policies in the Keygen account.

- Action

**Publish Release**

moves a draft release to PUBLISHED status; fires the release.published webhook event.

- Action

**Reinstate License**

Reinstates a suspended license.

- Action

**Renew License**

Renews a license by extending its expiration date.

- Action

**Request Password Reset**

/v1/accounts/{account}/passwords with meta.email (and meta.deliver=false) — the Forgot Password call; issues a reset token for the user and fires the user.password-reset webhook event.

- Action

**Reset License Usage**

Resets a license's usage counter.

- Action

**Suspend License**

Suspends a license.

- Action

**Transfer License**

Transfer an existing license to a different policy.

- Action

**Update License**

Updates a license.

- Action

**Update Machine**

Updates a machine.

- Action

**Update User**

Updates a user.

- Trigger

**New bill**

Triggered when a new bill is created

- Trigger

**New Customer**

Triggers when a new customer is created.

- Trigger

**New Estimate**

Triggers when a new estimate is created.

- Trigger

**New Expense**

Triggers when an expense is created.

- Trigger

**New Item**

Triggers when a new item is created.

- Trigger

**New Sales Invoice**

Triggers when a new sales invoice is created.

- Action

**Add bill**

Creates a bill received from a vendor in Zoho Books.

- Action

**Add customer payment**

Record a customer payment.

- Action

**Add expense**

Create an expense.

- Action

**Create Customer**

Creates a new customer contact in a Zoho Books organization.

- Action

**Create Estimate**

Creates a new estimate.

- Action

**Create Item**

Creates a new item.

- Action

**Create Sales Invoice**

Creates a new sales invoice.

- Action

**Find customers by criteria**

Returns the customers in a Zoho Books organization that match the specified criteria (name, company, contact person, address, email, phone, status or free text).

- Action

**Find Invoice**

Returns up to 200 invoices that match the specified criteria, such as invoice number, customer, status or date range.

- Action

**Get Bill**

Returns one vendor bill from Zoho Books, including its number, vendor, status and total.

- Action

**Get customer**

Get a contact by id.

- Action

**Get Estimate**

Returns one estimate (quote) from Zoho Books, including its number, customer, status and total.

- Action

**Get Expense**

Returns one expense recorded in Zoho Books, including its amount, date and accounts.

- Action

**Get Item**

Returns one item from your Zoho Books item list, including its name, rate and description.

- Action

**Get sales invoice**

Retrieves the details of an existing invoice in Zoho Books.

- Action

**Update customer**

Updates an existing customer in Zoho Books. Only the fields you fill in are changed.

- Action

**Update item**

Update an item.

- Action

**Update sales invoice**

Updates an existing sales invoice in Zoho Books. The line items you send replace the invoice's line items.

## Each app on its own

- [ **Keygen** Keygen is a key generation service that makes it easy for businesses to license and distribute their software.](https://apiant.ai/connections/keygen)
- [ **Zoho Books** Zoho Books is cloud-based accounting software in which you can record, audit and analyze all financial...](https://apiant.ai/connections/zoho-books)

Reviews

## What our customers say

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Questions

## Keygen and Zoho Books, answered

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### What can start an automation from Keygen?

Any of Keygen's 13 triggers in the catalog, including License Created, New Event, Release Created and User Created. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.

###

### What can your agent do in Zoho Books when something happens in Keygen?

Any of Zoho Books's 18 actions, including Create Customer, Create Estimate, Create Item and Create Sales Invoice. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

###

### Can it also run from Zoho Books to Keygen?

Yes. When something happens in Zoho Books, your agent can act in Keygen too. This page covers both directions: Zoho Books's triggers and Keygen's actions are listed here as well.

###

### Do I have to build a connector for Keygen or Zoho Books?

No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running.

###

### Can my AI client use Keygen and Zoho Books without building an automation?

Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both.

###

### What happens when something fails?

Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships.

###

### Is there a free plan?

Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.
